Lurking Libertarian: As a Jew, I find that belief not only illogical and unjust, but also unbiblical. As Ezekiel says (Ez. 18:20): "It is the person that sins that will die; a son will not bear responsibility for his father's guilt, nor a father for his son's. The righteous person will have his own righteousness placed to his account, and the wicked person his own wickedness."
If you give Exodus an honest read, you will see it applies to physical, national, civil law - not one's standing before God as a sinner. As descendents of Adam, every one of us has tainted blood.
Psa 14:3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Isa 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
<< Not to mention that all the trilobites had been long dead by the time the Steggies showed up. >>
Oops! Someone forget to tell these fellahs:
http://www.omniology.com/Apus-LivingTrilobite.html
http://www.creationevidence.org/cemframes.html?http%3A//www.creationevidence.org/museum_tour/meister/meister.html
[Aside to the creos: Please do not bother to tell me that Carl Baugh, Dr. Don Patton, and Bible.CA are still telling people that there are man tracks and dinosaur tracks together in Paluxy River, TX. There's lots of wishful misinterpretation and a little fraud going on there, nothing more.]
http://www.bible.ca/tracks/burdick-track.htm
Read the evidence and make up your own mind. Notice how some of the tracks were destroyed, and ask yourself who was perpetrating the fraud there.
"The various stages through which apus passes before reaching maturity look very like horseshoe crabs, which in turn resemble Trilobites."
How about that? Which reminds me of how immature lampreys resemble primitive cephalochordates like Brachiostoma/Amphioxus. That in turn reminds me that baby frogs look like fish. Hmmm. You know, baby insects look like worms. Baby humans at different stages look like protozoans, primitive colonials, chordates, vertebrates, etc.
There's also a funny wrinkle in mammalian embryology.
In 1837, a Creationist reported that during a pig's fetal development, part of the incipient jawbone detaches and becomes the little bones of the middle ear. After Evolution was invented, it was predicted that there would be a transitional fossil, of a reptile with a spare jaw joint right near its ear. A whole series of such fossils has since been found - the cynodont therapsids.
From Is Evolution Science?
For more on the fossil record part of that, anyone who followed the links in 401 of this thread read it
here.
Now you're going to scream "Haeckel faked his drawings!" and everything I've just said will be understood to go away. If we're all stupid, that is. Nothing goes away.